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Week Topic
1 – Feb 20 Introduction to Fossil Fuels (Oil, Gas, Coal, Oil Shale, Coal Bed Methane, gas hydrates, shale oil, shale gas)
2 – Feb 27 Origin of fossil fuels_ Carbon Cycle_ OM-rich Sediments
3 – Mar 6 Sedimentary Basins & QUIZ 1
4 – Mar 13 Sedimentary Rock Formation and Petroleum Source Rocks
5 – Mar 20 Coal and Coalification
6 – Mar 27 Burial and Thermal History Construction & QUIZ 2
7 – Apr 3 BREAK
8 – Apr 10 Thermal Maturity & Oil/Gas Generation & HMWK Assignment
9 – Apr 17 Subsurface Geology & Mid-term Exam
10 – Apr 24 Physical and Chemical Properties of Petroleum and Coal
11 – May 1 May day Holiday
12 – May 8 Primary and Secondary Migration of Oil and Gas & Unconventional Hydrocarbons Resources
13 – May 15 Reservoirs and Traps & QUIZ 3
14 – May 22 Exploration Methods for Petroleum and Coal
& HMWK Assignment Due
15 – May 29 Wireline Logging and Formation Evaluation |